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when i became speaker i realized if i couldn't get bill clinton's signature we could posture all year but we wouldn't get anything done so he and i worked endlessly and we passed balanced budgets, passed the first tax cut in 16 years. it took a tremendous amount of reaching -- you have to think about the country more than you think about your party or your own position if you're going to get this kind of stuff done. that's part of what i think my unique value is. i've actually been involved in doing this twice. nobody else in this race has successfully been involved in the scale of change i was involved in in those two cycles. yes, ma'am? >> this is not a national thing, but the united states postal service, have you thought about not paying down the -- >> hold on. let me finish with the lady up here and then i'll come back there. ? the postal service is contingent to the united states mail. not paying down the retirement, prepaying down for people that aren't even employed yet and keeping the postal service -- like here they're talking about closing down the service here. is there an
when i became speaker i realized if i couldn't get bill clinton's signature we could posture all year but we wouldn't get anything done so he and i worked endlessly and we passed balanced budgets, passed the first tax cut in 16 years. it took a tremendous amount of reaching -- you have to think about the country more than you think about your party or your own position if you're going to get this kind of stuff done. that's part of what i think my unique value is. i've actually been involved in...
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when bill clinton made comments that many interpreted as downplaying president obama in the race, saying his narrative was a fairy tale. why do you think that these comments seemed to come up around the time of the south carolina primary? what you think of president clinton now four years later? has he done enough to prepare -- to repair when he made those comments? >> quite frankly, i do not think president clinton ever broke ties. the fact remains, we all know that the south carolina primary is the first in the south. they leave here today. in 10 days there'll be a primary in florida. very soon, around super tuesday, it will be mississippi, alabama, and georgia. these kinds of discussions are simply because south carolina is a first up in this part of the country. it is a different electorate here than the rest of the country. use the words and phrases being used to connect with voters the do not think plays well in other parts of the country. i love that south carolina is first because on both sides are democrats and republicans. you get a chance for the -- for the candid it to demons
when bill clinton made comments that many interpreted as downplaying president obama in the race, saying his narrative was a fairy tale. why do you think that these comments seemed to come up around the time of the south carolina primary? what you think of president clinton now four years later? has he done enough to prepare -- to repair when he made those comments? >> quite frankly, i do not think president clinton ever broke ties. the fact remains, we all know that the south carolina...
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bill clinton tried the approach i am talking about. we created 23 million new jobs, but from deficit to surplus, and businesses did well. in some ways we have some data on which approach is more likely to create jobs and opportunity for americans. i believe that the economy works best when middle-class families are getting tax breaks and those of us who have done well because of this magnificent country we live in that we can afford to do more to make sure we are not blowing up the deficit. >> he gets the first word of that segment. let me make this comment. let me repeat what i said. i am not in favor of a $5 trillion tax cut. my plan is not to put in place any tax cut that will add to the deficit. that is not my plan. let's look at history. my plan is not like anything that has been tried before. my plan is to bring down rates and credit so the revenue stays in but we bring down rates to get more people working. my priority is putting people back to work in america. they are suffering. look at the evidence of the last four years. it
bill clinton tried the approach i am talking about. we created 23 million new jobs, but from deficit to surplus, and businesses did well. in some ways we have some data on which approach is more likely to create jobs and opportunity for americans. i believe that the economy works best when middle-class families are getting tax breaks and those of us who have done well because of this magnificent country we live in that we can afford to do more to make sure we are not blowing up the deficit....
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i got to practice them as speaker working with bill clinton. i want to suggest to you that when ronald reagan was president, we had to find a way to get votes for the house despite the fact that tip o'neill was speaker. when i was speaker, we had to find a way to get bill to sign despite the fact that bill clinton was president. i believe that we had a republican house, a republican senate, and a gingrich presidency, it would be amazing how much we could get done and how rapidly we could get it done. [applause] so, we will take to south carolina tonight and kickoff tomorrow morning a campaign for jobs and economic growth, a campaign for a balanced budget, a campaign for returning power to the states to the 10th amendment, a campaign for a strong national security, a campaign for a stable, solid social security program both for people now on it and for the young people who are here who deserve a chance in their lead time to have an even better program with an even greater return because if we are smart, we can do better things for people. the wa
i got to practice them as speaker working with bill clinton. i want to suggest to you that when ronald reagan was president, we had to find a way to get votes for the house despite the fact that tip o'neill was speaker. when i was speaker, we had to find a way to get bill to sign despite the fact that bill clinton was president. i believe that we had a republican house, a republican senate, and a gingrich presidency, it would be amazing how much we could get done and how rapidly we could get it...
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when i became speaker, i realized if i couldn't get bill clinton's signature, we could posture all year but couldn't get anything done. so he and i negotiated endlessly and the result was we passed welfare reform and he signed it into law. we passed balanced budgets. we passed the first tax cut in 16 years. it took a tremendous amount of reaching. you have to think about the country more than you think about your party or your own position if you're going to get this kind of stuff done and that's part of why i think my unique value as a candidate is i have actually valued in doing this twice. nobody else in this race has successfully been involved on the scale of change that i was involved in in those two cycles. em. >> this is just about a national thing about the united states postal service. have you thought about not paying down the -- >> hold on, let me finish with this lady up here and then i'll come to one back there. >> the postal service is
when i became speaker, i realized if i couldn't get bill clinton's signature, we could posture all year but couldn't get anything done. so he and i negotiated endlessly and the result was we passed welfare reform and he signed it into law. we passed balanced budgets. we passed the first tax cut in 16 years. it took a tremendous amount of reaching. you have to think about the country more than you think about your party or your own position if you're going to get this kind of stuff done and...
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>> so john was chief of staff to bill clinton and at the end of the bill clintoned a minutes started center for america for progress. he took the leave to be the head of president o bam's transition team and then come back to the center and his brother tony and sister-in-law heather are -- you know, tony used to be at the people for the american way and worked at the dukakis campaign as chair of california, dukakis campaign and worked a fair amount in pennsylvania. and now is a lobbyist. and has a -- has a thriving practice. >> has john being on the hill for a while? >> yes. in the early 1990's and in the 19 0's, he had worked for -- in the agricultural committee. he worked i believe for chuck culver's dad, don culver. >> senator. >> i.o.s. and he worked fsh tom daschle. -- he worked for tom daschle. >> he's actually a distinguished fellow with us. >> who are some of the fellows we might recognize? >> carol. matt miller is a senior fellow. he writes in "the washington post" and is often on msnbc. and you know, andre kerney is a senior fellow with us. he worked in the clinton administ
>> so john was chief of staff to bill clinton and at the end of the bill clintoned a minutes started center for america for progress. he took the leave to be the head of president o bam's transition team and then come back to the center and his brother tony and sister-in-law heather are -- you know, tony used to be at the people for the american way and worked at the dukakis campaign as chair of california, dukakis campaign and worked a fair amount in pennsylvania. and now is a lobbyist....
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also a message that remind me of bill clinton. the need to address our economic problems. when we combine and synthesize the best of ronald reagan and the clinton as candidates, that is what we saw here tonight. i think the country will respond to that. >> the massachusetts delegation. a line from the speech? governor romney and his history as a husband. ann romney was excellent. america needs someone of character and leadership. his background at bain and the governor of massachusetts, turning a deficit into a surplus. america needs a ceo and a family man more than ever. >> there are ron paul delegates, including one from delegates said. one line? >> repealed and replaced. that flies in the platform we just passed. we were in there all last week, hanging out. we were able to actually get through some language about replacing it with free-market principles, not government stuff. apparently romney has not -- read our platform we passed. >> do you leave this convention united, supporting rate -- mitt romney? >> absolutely not. every time they have tried to run a moderate or
also a message that remind me of bill clinton. the need to address our economic problems. when we combine and synthesize the best of ronald reagan and the clinton as candidates, that is what we saw here tonight. i think the country will respond to that. >> the massachusetts delegation. a line from the speech? governor romney and his history as a husband. ann romney was excellent. america needs someone of character and leadership. his background at bain and the governor of massachusetts,...
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that is how we did it -- [applause] that is how we did it in the 1990's when bill clinton was president, and that is how we can reduce the deficit while still making the investments we need to build a strong middle class and a strong economy. that is the only way we can still afford to train our workers or help our kids pay for college or make sure that good jobs and clean energy in high-tech manufacturing do not and other countries like china. already i have put forward a detailed plan that allows us to make these investments by reducing the deficit $4 trillion over the next decade. i want to be clear -- i am not wedded to every detail of my plan, i am open to compromise, i am open to new ideas. i am committed to solving our fiscal challenges. but i refuse to accept any approach that is not balanced. i am not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me making over $250,000 are not asked to pay a dime more in taxes. i am not going to do that. [applause] i just want to point out this was a central question during the ele
that is how we did it -- [applause] that is how we did it in the 1990's when bill clinton was president, and that is how we can reduce the deficit while still making the investments we need to build a strong middle class and a strong economy. that is the only way we can still afford to train our workers or help our kids pay for college or make sure that good jobs and clean energy in high-tech manufacturing do not and other countries like china. already i have put forward a detailed plan that...
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they used bill clinton as a foil and got things done. they have yet to prove that they can actually govern as the majority party in a parliamentary sense for any other and that will be a big task that happen to win the election. >> we will go to questions by want to remind people that they can still either e-mail their questions to aeidebates or twitter. we have a question -- let's start off with this one -- what is the role of the tea party and is it the reason or how much of the reason at all that you think the republicans are extreme and how do you think the tea party fits into the republican party and the question of extremas and? >> i think it is the first time -- it is a pretty substantial populist movement of the right. getting into the rallies was unprecedented. >> there were all at country clubs. [laughter] >> there's got to be a good joke about a country club riot. just as the new left and the anti-war movement and associated parts push the democratic party to the left in the 1960's and 1970's to the ruination of johnson and mc
they used bill clinton as a foil and got things done. they have yet to prove that they can actually govern as the majority party in a parliamentary sense for any other and that will be a big task that happen to win the election. >> we will go to questions by want to remind people that they can still either e-mail their questions to aeidebates or twitter. we have a question -- let's start off with this one -- what is the role of the tea party and is it the reason or how much of the reason...
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>> of bill clinton is inaugurated in 1993. he had five former presidents alive. >> which has never happened other than lincoln. his five were nixon, ford, carter, reagan, and bush. >> they had all been turned out of office. >> had you spent much time on them? >> when you could only write a book of so many pages that was the place to start. hoover goes up to truman on the diocese of ike swearing in says let's start a president's club. truman says great. you be the president. i will be the secretary. >> they were joking, but that language, reagan uses it with carter. there are souvenirs. at one point kennedy sends eisenhower a bunch of golf balls with the presidential seal and says i cannot use these in new a the only one that legitimately can. >> when reagan leaves office, here are some rules are going to need to follow. you're going to have to say no most of the time. they what try to drag you into financial deals. you have to ignore this. people will try to take advantage of you. we will talk about this as it goes on. we will
>> of bill clinton is inaugurated in 1993. he had five former presidents alive. >> which has never happened other than lincoln. his five were nixon, ford, carter, reagan, and bush. >> they had all been turned out of office. >> had you spent much time on them? >> when you could only write a book of so many pages that was the place to start. hoover goes up to truman on the diocese of ike swearing in says let's start a president's club. truman says great. you be the...
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out of it came bill clinton, the new democrats. you cannot say romney lost because he was too moderate so we need someone really conservative. we need the discussion and when you talked about, the demographic, and cultural changes, the economic changes, and how to best approach it. that's a process. >> what does this question been for the presidential candidates who are already running around in the republican party? does this mean rubio has cougha better chance? >> republicans are already looking to chris christie. >> which party? >> and some are saying how off message was and they do not like a number of things he has done. someone with appeal across the parties is what you want. and someone who can defend where he is. >> are there other questions? if so, please cannot to the microphone. did you have a question? -- please come up to the microphone. >> i was a drill in a few would be able to engage in some monday morning quarterbacking. what could the romney campaign could have done to win it? he was too narrow in his approach. he
out of it came bill clinton, the new democrats. you cannot say romney lost because he was too moderate so we need someone really conservative. we need the discussion and when you talked about, the demographic, and cultural changes, the economic changes, and how to best approach it. that's a process. >> what does this question been for the presidential candidates who are already running around in the republican party? does this mean rubio has cougha better chance? >> republicans are...
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he ran on a ballot to increase the taxes to the bill clinton era tax rates. that means 35% for the top rate. is that the president's position now, and would he veto any package that comes back from congress that does not do that? >> the president will veto any bill that extends the bush era tax cuts for the top 2% of wage earners in this country. what the president made clear again today and has said for quite some time is that he would sign right now the bill that passed the senate that extends tax cuts for 90% of us. this is a simple and easy way to address a large part of the uncertainty created by the so- called fiscal cliff. it for those who did not engage in beltway parlance, but a series of deadlines that include expiration of these tax cuts that would cause uncertainty and damage to the economy if they're not dealt with. extending those tax cuts for 98% of the american people would deal with more than half, in dollar terms, of the impact caused by the fiscal cliff. it there are other challenges we would need to address, including the sequester, but co
he ran on a ballot to increase the taxes to the bill clinton era tax rates. that means 35% for the top rate. is that the president's position now, and would he veto any package that comes back from congress that does not do that? >> the president will veto any bill that extends the bush era tax cuts for the top 2% of wage earners in this country. what the president made clear again today and has said for quite some time is that he would sign right now the bill that passed the senate that...
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the speaker of the house, i had to give bill clinton's signature. if i wanted to get something done, i had to get his signature. if he wanted something done, he had to give me to scuttle it. pretty tough negotiating. we ended up with welfare reform, two out of every three people went back to work or went to school. child poverty declined as parents earned a living. we passed the first tax cut in 16 years, the largest capital gains tax in history. the result was unemployment dropped to 14.2%. we then signed the 1997 balanced budget act for four consecutive years for rebalance the budget, pay off $405 billion in debt. the only four years of your lifetime we balance the budget. we insisted on keeping the intelligence system by $1 billion. the said it was the only time in the 1990's that the intelligence community got more money. the director of the cia said without it the system would have broken down. you can get these things done. how fast will a turnaround? late on election night when it is obvious that obama has been defeated, people will start cha
the speaker of the house, i had to give bill clinton's signature. if i wanted to get something done, i had to get his signature. if he wanted something done, he had to give me to scuttle it. pretty tough negotiating. we ended up with welfare reform, two out of every three people went back to work or went to school. child poverty declined as parents earned a living. we passed the first tax cut in 16 years, the largest capital gains tax in history. the result was unemployment dropped to 14.2%. we...
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clinton? when bill clinton's turn came in -- [chantingg] i will tell you where he was. let me tell you where he was. i will tell you where he was. camebill clinton's time in vietnam, he sat up in a dormitory in oxford, england, draft. which of these two men has won the moral authority to call on risk? i suggest, respectfully, it is the patriot and war hero, navy lieutenant j.g. george herbert walker bush. [applause] my friends, this campaign is about philosophy, and it is about character, and george bush wins hands down on both counts and it is time all of us came home and stood beside him. chose albert gore. and just how moderate is prince albert? well, according to the taxpayers union, al gore beat out teddy kennedy, two straight years, for the title of biggest spender in the senate. and teddy kennedy isn't moderate about anything. and i am not kidding. how many other 60 year-old do you know that still go to florida for spring break? [applause] out that that great big costume party in new york, mr. gore made ahenceforth, he said, the "central organizing principle" of
clinton? when bill clinton's turn came in -- [chantingg] i will tell you where he was. let me tell you where he was. i will tell you where he was. camebill clinton's time in vietnam, he sat up in a dormitory in oxford, england, draft. which of these two men has won the moral authority to call on risk? i suggest, respectfully, it is the patriot and war hero, navy lieutenant j.g. george herbert walker bush. [applause] my friends, this campaign is about philosophy, and it is about character, and...
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bill clinton put forth and mlr, remember what was? 90%. ok. i am trying to think. joint taxes was the one that scored them. when they look to the bill, they said that if you have 90% that you have to pay out in benefits, you really are not an insurance company anymore. you are not managing risk anymore. you're just simply paint claims. -- paying claims. you cannot with that small a margin make a profit and do anything to manage risk. as a result, what happened under clinton, obama said hours was much less expensive than clintoncare was. they looked at this and said it is not a private system. it is actually a federal payment -- a tax. all the insurance company is doing is being a third-party payer for the government. they considered all the premiums and benefits and federal taxes and revenue. what is the obama administration do? they know it cannot be 90%. they come in at 85%. this is the kind of talk down -- we know how to run your business better than you do. it is, again, over and over again you will see this with this administration. in the back. >> how much of
bill clinton put forth and mlr, remember what was? 90%. ok. i am trying to think. joint taxes was the one that scored them. when they look to the bill, they said that if you have 90% that you have to pay out in benefits, you really are not an insurance company anymore. you are not managing risk anymore. you're just simply paint claims. -- paying claims. you cannot with that small a margin make a profit and do anything to manage risk. as a result, what happened under clinton, obama said hours...
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no matter how things are going, bill clinton made a living out of that question. it seems like something the president is persistently doing better than governor romney. how does this get turned around? >> are you talking about job approval? >> no. understanding the concerns. >> first of all, he is there. there is a huge advantage for being there and optimism being baked in the cake. 39% figure that people believe the country is moving forward. that includes the people who want the country to move forward. imagine what the number really is when you extract that out of the equation. cares about people like me is great during a clinton economy that looks nothing like the obama economy. they may feel that obama is an but that, but they feel he is competent. one thing the vice president did, they made all these promises and more specific. this is a guy who got elected on a whole bunch of nonspecific words. when you get specific in those promises and you can reach those, and people remind everybody of those benchmarks, he may understand you, but he is not getting you a
no matter how things are going, bill clinton made a living out of that question. it seems like something the president is persistently doing better than governor romney. how does this get turned around? >> are you talking about job approval? >> no. understanding the concerns. >> first of all, he is there. there is a huge advantage for being there and optimism being baked in the cake. 39% figure that people believe the country is moving forward. that includes the people who...
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bill clinton vetoed it twice and we had to change it to make him happy. and clay shaw was in the house while i was in the senate. the washington post justed a fact check on the statement and they said it is a japan no, not a pinocchio. it is true. -- it is a giapetto, not a pinocchio. we were able to get bipartisan support to do something that had never been done in the history of our country. and a broadbased federal entitlement -- end a broadbased federal entitlement. [applause] president clinton vetoed. we communicated with the american public. we told them what will there was doing and how much harm was being done. we can and we must do the same thing. go out and communicate to the american public that these programs, as well-intentioned as there, are not helping people as much as they could. and we need to give the flexibility to the local committees to make sure that these programs are not dependency programs. do what we did with welfare, give them back to the state with two requirements. number one, a work requirement, never to come a time limit. t
bill clinton vetoed it twice and we had to change it to make him happy. and clay shaw was in the house while i was in the senate. the washington post justed a fact check on the statement and they said it is a japan no, not a pinocchio. it is true. -- it is a giapetto, not a pinocchio. we were able to get bipartisan support to do something that had never been done in the history of our country. and a broadbased federal entitlement -- end a broadbased federal entitlement. [applause] president...
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many of the leaders of the 1960's movement, like bill and hillary clinton, libertarians' at that time, eventually settled down as liberal democrats. as for the reagan administration, it's success in reviving the economy may have given the new deal a new lease on life wild and of the cold war took the national security issue off the table, much to the advantage of democratic presidential candidate to followed, like bill clinton. republicans have achieved draft electoral parity with democrats since 1980, winning five of nine elections and winning control of the house and senate for roughly half the elections. still, republicans never managed to reverse the flow of power and failed to eliminate or reduce the great society programs. federal spending grew nearly as quickly and republicans as democratic administrations. republicans have, on occasion, tried to balance the budget or tinker with social security and medicare but they never succeeded. republican governors and mayors, like their democratic counterparts continued to make pilgrimages to washington in search of subsidies for their s
many of the leaders of the 1960's movement, like bill and hillary clinton, libertarians' at that time, eventually settled down as liberal democrats. as for the reagan administration, it's success in reviving the economy may have given the new deal a new lease on life wild and of the cold war took the national security issue off the table, much to the advantage of democratic presidential candidate to followed, like bill clinton. republicans have achieved draft electoral parity with democrats...
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>> john was chief of staff to bill clinton and then a few years after the end of the clinton administration started center for american progress and has been with the center throughout. he took a leave to be the head of president obama's transition team and then came back to the center and was the president before i elevated. his brother tony and sister-in-law heather, tony has a long history of people for the american way and worked on the cue cawkiss campaign as chairman of the california dukakis campaign and worked a fair amount in pennsylvania and now is a lobbyist. and has a thriving lobbying practice. >> had john podesta been up on the hill for a while? >> in the early 1990's and 1980's worked for senator leahy on the agriculture committee and worked, i believe, for chuck culver or chuck culver's dad, john culver. senator from iowa. and he worked for tom daschle at one point. >> and tom daschle is now with you all. >> he's now a senior fellow. he is a distinguished senior fellow. >> who are some of the other fellows you have that we might recognize? >> charles browner is a distinguish
>> john was chief of staff to bill clinton and then a few years after the end of the clinton administration started center for american progress and has been with the center throughout. he took a leave to be the head of president obama's transition team and then came back to the center and was the president before i elevated. his brother tony and sister-in-law heather, tony has a long history of people for the american way and worked on the cue cawkiss campaign as chairman of the...
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>> he was chief of staff to bill clinton. and then a few years after the clinton administration started, the center for american progress. he has been with the center throughout. he took a leave to be the head of president obama's transition team. then he came back to the center and was president before i elevated. his brother and sister-in-law are involved in progressive politics. they worked on the dukakis campaign in california. they also worked a fair amount in pennsylvania. and now they are a lobbyist -- and now is a lobbyist and has a thriving lobbyist company. >> has he been on the hill for a while? >> yes. in the early 1990's and in the arly 1980's he worked for senator on the agriculture committee. senator culver. and he worked for,. >> and he is now with you all? >> yes. >> who are some of the other fellows you have that we might recognize? >> matt miller is a senior. he writes on "the washington ."st quote they are all brilliant thinkers. we have a full roster. eric alderman is a senior with us. there it is much mo
>> he was chief of staff to bill clinton. and then a few years after the clinton administration started, the center for american progress. he has been with the center throughout. he took a leave to be the head of president obama's transition team. then he came back to the center and was president before i elevated. his brother and sister-in-law are involved in progressive politics. they worked on the dukakis campaign in california. they also worked a fair amount in pennsylvania. and now...
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bill clinton was great. we spent an hour with him in harlem. >> why did you begin the book with him? >> he was so i bought it about his -- e vocative about his predecessors. he said is a presidential library to all of the 41 you came before him. yet the picture of johnson. but he plans to the bookshelf -- >> he points to the bookshelf and says there is my presidential library and from washington through bush. it is of his memoirs and diaries. they all study each other. they all talk about it. it is as though the only people who can understand them are the ones who came before. they devour the letters and diaries. >> george walker bush read 70 -- 17 biographies of lincoln while he was in office. it was in a "times" story. >> i entered bush for a -- i interviewed george w. bush for a different story. i asked him about how his views of his predecessors had or had not changed as a result of his own experience. he said i think differently about all of them. that was not what i expected to hear. >> tell the story
bill clinton was great. we spent an hour with him in harlem. >> why did you begin the book with him? >> he was so i bought it about his -- e vocative about his predecessors. he said is a presidential library to all of the 41 you came before him. yet the picture of johnson. but he plans to the bookshelf -- >> he points to the bookshelf and says there is my presidential library and from washington through bush. it is of his memoirs and diaries. they all study each other. they...
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that was a bipartisan bill. it was put forward by president clinton. i liked the ball, the people -- i like to the bill from nebraska liked the ball. --senator kerrey and joe biden voted for the bill. that was an important piece of legislation. can you explain to us why did you vote against cutting spending? why did you vote against requiring people to work for their welfare check? and why did you vote against that landmark piece of legislation? >> you have 90 seconds. >> first of all, that is several questions. i did not vote against cutting spending. we supported the george bush budget in 1990. we did the same thing in 1993. and i worked with john kasic and newt gingrich rich, and it got the job done. we balanced the budget. the unemployment rate was going down and poverty rates were going down. other than that, it didn't work. i didn't like the welfare bill. i voted against it because i didn't believe it provided the kind of child care and work support we needed to provide. we came back in, in 1997, and did it. i don't oppose of people receiving wel
that was a bipartisan bill. it was put forward by president clinton. i liked the ball, the people -- i like to the bill from nebraska liked the ball. --senator kerrey and joe biden voted for the bill. that was an important piece of legislation. can you explain to us why did you vote against cutting spending? why did you vote against requiring people to work for their welfare check? and why did you vote against that landmark piece of legislation? >> you have 90 seconds. >> first of...
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this is the same kind of recommendation that president bill clinton's bipartisan commission to save medicare recommended in the late 1990s. the idea originally comes out of the brookings institution, the think tank, it works like medicare benefits work today. medicare prescription drugs works like this, advantage works like this, buying your medicare supplemental insurance works like this, private providers, competing against each other for our business and that runs to the other part of your question. we believe the best way to get at this issue, health inflation, is by giving the patient the power, a consumer-directed system. where the providers, hospitals, insurers, doctors, compete against each other for our business as consumers. we spend over 2 1/2 times per person on health care in this country than any other industrialized country. we spend a lot of money on health care but we don't spend it intelligently, so we need a system like all other market-based sectors of our economy where you have transparency in price, transparency in quality and economic incentive to act on those things s
this is the same kind of recommendation that president bill clinton's bipartisan commission to save medicare recommended in the late 1990s. the idea originally comes out of the brookings institution, the think tank, it works like medicare benefits work today. medicare prescription drugs works like this, advantage works like this, buying your medicare supplemental insurance works like this, private providers, competing against each other for our business and that runs to the other part of your...
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bill clinton had 1000 more times experience than mitt romney. the idea that somebody is more mature and did not tell us what to do? get out of here. that does not make sense at all. it is an idiotic argument. guest: in listening to these people, and you look at the debate about the test, did obama get the economy moving, was he successful? that is not where the voters are. they thought he was handed very difficult things. it was very tough. they want to know what we are going to do. they think the middle class is in trouble. they want to know what you are going to do. what is coming? what is in the future? guest: i hope the mitt romney camp follows that advice. everything that we see, focus groups, polls, they want to know what is your idea to get the middle class moving again. by and large, more people want to think about the next four them the last four. host: this point on auto makers -- the only thing the president said was the unions. that is one of the arguments republicans are critical of. guest: the public looks at tarp and they view it
bill clinton had 1000 more times experience than mitt romney. the idea that somebody is more mature and did not tell us what to do? get out of here. that does not make sense at all. it is an idiotic argument. guest: in listening to these people, and you look at the debate about the test, did obama get the economy moving, was he successful? that is not where the voters are. they thought he was handed very difficult things. it was very tough. they want to know what we are going to do. they think...
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but the clinton campaign, and bill clinton as a candidate, it was a whale of a story politically, given all of the ups and downs that he went through, and to be able to see the ability of somebody who is under fire, which all candidates are at one time or another, his determination to kind of push through that, and also, i thought what he did in kinds -- rematching -- trying to rethink what the democratic party needed to do to bring middle-class voters back to their side, i thought that was intellectually and very interesting experience, but, brian, every campaign is a fascinating campaign. i mean, they are unpredictable. the country it is always in a different place both politically and economically as we go through these campaigns. the human side of these campaigns is fascinating, and one you get to know the politics of different states and the politicians from different states, so as you are following the circus of the presidential campaign, you are in a sense of getting a graduate seminar every four years in terms of where the country is. >> how many people have made up their minds,
but the clinton campaign, and bill clinton as a candidate, it was a whale of a story politically, given all of the ups and downs that he went through, and to be able to see the ability of somebody who is under fire, which all candidates are at one time or another, his determination to kind of push through that, and also, i thought what he did in kinds -- rematching -- trying to rethink what the democratic party needed to do to bring middle-class voters back to their side, i thought that was...
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i managed the bill and went up against ted kennedy and daniel patrick moynihan and bill clinton. harry reid is nothing to deal with. [applause] we can get it passed. we just need to go out to the american public and tell them, we don't need 72 assessments that the federal level. let's get it back to the state and local level. let's do what works. the amazing thing is with welfare, when you cut the welfare rolls in half across the country, poverty rates went down and employment went up. that is exactly what we want. [applause] we have a track record on the big issues of the day and the social issues of the day on the domestic front. obamacare is the reason i am in this race. [applause] karen and i decided to enter this race. it was not a rational decision. we have seven children, ages 20- 3. not the best time in our lives to be out running for president, but we decided to do it because we could not look our children in the eyes and realize what kind of country we would be handing them if obamacare is implemented, and every single american, not 40%, but every single american will b
i managed the bill and went up against ted kennedy and daniel patrick moynihan and bill clinton. harry reid is nothing to deal with. [applause] we can get it passed. we just need to go out to the american public and tell them, we don't need 72 assessments that the federal level. let's get it back to the state and local level. let's do what works. the amazing thing is with welfare, when you cut the welfare rolls in half across the country, poverty rates went down and employment went up. that is...
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[applause] for example, bill clinton ejaculated on an intern. that is not constitutional. constitutional refers to the most brilliant documents from our founding fathers. it is not just the 10th amendments. it is a fantastic constitution. there has never been anything like it in the history of the world. [applause] by allowing states and federal government, elected officials in state and local governments, to make decisions is not explained as well as it could be. states could have a law saying you have to walk around a in theh ain a purple hat. but we trust the people to vote for reasonable laws. in tennessee they can have salt and guns on the table. that allows you the maximum number of americans to fashion this sort of society they are living in by breaking it down into the smallest unit as possible. the worst thing about obamacare is certainly not the individual mandates. that is the legal arguments. it is just the beginning. i am glad we are ending on this. i do not want to leave you without making this point. this is not a catholic issue, it is a freedom issue. [chee
[applause] for example, bill clinton ejaculated on an intern. that is not constitutional. constitutional refers to the most brilliant documents from our founding fathers. it is not just the 10th amendments. it is a fantastic constitution. there has never been anything like it in the history of the world. [applause] by allowing states and federal government, elected officials in state and local governments, to make decisions is not explained as well as it could be. states could have a law saying...
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clinton, we created 11 million w jobs in four years. i would like to run as the paycheck candidate against obama as the food stamp candidate. i think we can probably beat him. i disagree with your conclusion such request was fascinating. i would like to be remembered for my public life, something i got for my father who spent 27 years in the infantry in the u.s. army. i have tried as a citizen to serve the cause of freedom and the cause of the united states. if i am remembered to somebody who fought and worked and wrote books and served in office as a citizen trying to protect america and trying to protect freedom, i would feel my life had been well spent host: this is from our facebook page -- what would you do regarding minimum wage if you became president? guest: i would try to get people to have rapidly growing jobs above the minimum wage. we need to have the kind of economic growth in jobs we had with ronald reagan and we had when i was speaker. if you do that, people enter minimum wage but the rapidly rise above it. that should be
clinton, we created 11 million w jobs in four years. i would like to run as the paycheck candidate against obama as the food stamp candidate. i think we can probably beat him. i disagree with your conclusion such request was fascinating. i would like to be remembered for my public life, something i got for my father who spent 27 years in the infantry in the u.s. army. i have tried as a citizen to serve the cause of freedom and the cause of the united states. if i am remembered to somebody who...
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wednesday, a massachusetts senate candidate and former president bill clinton. use our convention hug to make and share video clips. >> we offer an opportunity. we demand responsibility. we will build an american community again. the choice we offer is not conservative or liberal. in many ways, it is not republican or democratic. it is different, it is new, and it will work. >> connect with other viewers with twitter and google hangouts. >> in the movie, we rattle a lot of cages. >> i grabbed my cameraman and pretended to be important. >> i made my way onto one of the un buses. does anyone know a good song we can sing? "99 bottles of beer on the wall ." anybody? >> i was told that there were u.n. peacekeepers that killed -- >> at the beginning of the crisis and here, we have these fighters fighting each other. >> it sounds to me like he is dodging the question. i walked out of my apartment, a very nice and comfortable place to live, and i came out and i was grilled by a man who was waiting very nicely for us in a nice suit. my spidey sense started tingling. he s
wednesday, a massachusetts senate candidate and former president bill clinton. use our convention hug to make and share video clips. >> we offer an opportunity. we demand responsibility. we will build an american community again. the choice we offer is not conservative or liberal. in many ways, it is not republican or democratic. it is different, it is new, and it will work. >> connect with other viewers with twitter and google hangouts. >> in the movie, we rattle a lot of...
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bill clinton had his best triumph during 1997 to 2000. of course he had a republican -- no, no, nafta -- trade liberalization is basically gone. it is to the president's own benefit, for his own legacy, if he tacks to the middle and results these big issues. it will disappoint his base, the republicans will disappoint their base pay but for his own legacy, it is better for him to tack to the center. >> when we see the income gaps showing up in the data, we have to look very closely at the education gaps. whether it is a federal issue or state issue or both, one can debate, but there is a serious crisis in terms of the outcome and disparity of educational attainment. i think another one is the tax code. going back to what you are asking earlier, are we going to have a fight over the progressivity of the tax code or reforming the tax code on a revenue-neutral basis? we like the code the way it is, we just want to make a progressive -- is there a way to blend those issues and have a code that is more efficient, more pro-growth? it might make
bill clinton had his best triumph during 1997 to 2000. of course he had a republican -- no, no, nafta -- trade liberalization is basically gone. it is to the president's own benefit, for his own legacy, if he tacks to the middle and results these big issues. it will disappoint his base, the republicans will disappoint their base pay but for his own legacy, it is better for him to tack to the center. >> when we see the income gaps showing up in the data, we have to look very closely at the...
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bill clinton had his best triumph during 1997 to 2000. of course he had a republican -- no, no, nafta -- trade liberalization is basically gone. it is to the president's own benefit, for his own legacy, if he tacks to the middle and results these big issues. it will disappoint his base, the republicans will disappoint their base pay but for his own legacy, it is better for him to tack to the center. >> when we see the income gaps showing up in the data, we have to look very closely at the education gaps. whether it is a federal issue or state issue or both, one can debate, but there is a serious crisis in terms of the outcome and disparity of educational attainment. i think another one is the tax code. going back to what you are asking earlier, are we going to have a fight over the progressivity of the tax code or reforming the tax code on a revenue-neutral basis? we like the code the way it is, we just want to make a progressive -- is there a way to blend those issues and have a code that is more efficient, more pro-growth? it might make
bill clinton had his best triumph during 1997 to 2000. of course he had a republican -- no, no, nafta -- trade liberalization is basically gone. it is to the president's own benefit, for his own legacy, if he tacks to the middle and results these big issues. it will disappoint his base, the republicans will disappoint their base pay but for his own legacy, it is better for him to tack to the center. >> when we see the income gaps showing up in the data, we have to look very closely at the...
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. >> i want to ask you a question about the -- when bill clinton was president, he did the field day. now obama is doing a sign up, big old dam. with the arab spring, with iran wchina building a navy, north korea having nuclear weapons and all it me, maybe i'm wrong, this is a statement. that is the number one job of the federal government is to fence of this country. >> amen. [ cheers and applause ] >> you have been at previous town hall meetings because you sound a lot like what i sound like. it is the number one person i enjoyed seeing. it is what the federal government does. you are talking about principal responsibility of what the federal government is. the first responsibility, to keep it safe from foreign aggressors. if you look at the problems in this country as far as the explosion of spending, i mean a get a kick out of congressman paul that says the reason the budget is out of wax, and all this is going on at the defense. nice narrative, but it's not true. 50 years ago, defense comprised 60% of the federal government. 6-0! today it's 2-0, 20%. now if someone is gone from 6
. >> i want to ask you a question about the -- when bill clinton was president, he did the field day. now obama is doing a sign up, big old dam. with the arab spring, with iran wchina building a navy, north korea having nuclear weapons and all it me, maybe i'm wrong, this is a statement. that is the number one job of the federal government is to fence of this country. >> amen. [ cheers and applause ] >> you have been at previous town hall meetings because you sound a lot like...
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however, if he does not do what bill clinton did and encourage republican ideas to be accepted and so on and so forth, he then would be and should be a one- term president. he himself said he you should be a one-term president. he did not keep his promises. i wanted him and i prayed for him to still be successful. however, my children and grandchildren are suffering because he did not keep his promises. so on and so forth. the man is -- let's just say, i do not think his -- when it comes to mormons and got it. god loves all of us 100%. facts are, there should never be war. god wants us to love each other and love our neighbor as ourselves. host: this comes from an article by sophie clinton in "national journal," do debate fact checkers matter? what is your response to that? caller: the fact checkers are irresponsible because they do not tell the facts. host: the article since to say that despite the facts, the fact checkers are calling both candidates on items they have been using in their campaign that the campaign still keep hammering away at things that have been debunked. caller:
however, if he does not do what bill clinton did and encourage republican ideas to be accepted and so on and so forth, he then would be and should be a one- term president. he himself said he you should be a one-term president. he did not keep his promises. i wanted him and i prayed for him to still be successful. however, my children and grandchildren are suffering because he did not keep his promises. so on and so forth. the man is -- let's just say, i do not think his -- when it comes to...
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we didn't see -- we saw little ross perot but also bill clinton much better being right there with all of them and talking to the people in this town hall debate as if they were friends and folks that they are connected to. this seems to be representing with his body language, his desire to be away from this as soon as possible. i would say that in terms of body language, we saw it happened after the first debate this year. barack obama decided he needed to be more aggressive. he was more aggressive. he did a study, he actually interrupted mitt romney a bit more often than romney interrupted him. they both interrupted each other. it's not only what you see, but how your whole body says it. >> bob, you said it perfectly, this next piece of video i want is from 1980. not a general election debate, but a primary debate that took place in new hampshire. i will show this and come back to bob and steve and get a reaction. why this became such an important moment. january, 1980. let's watch. [video clip] >> i paid for this microphone. [applause]. >> fromxeóa new hampshire, notie george herbe
we didn't see -- we saw little ross perot but also bill clinton much better being right there with all of them and talking to the people in this town hall debate as if they were friends and folks that they are connected to. this seems to be representing with his body language, his desire to be away from this as soon as possible. i would say that in terms of body language, we saw it happened after the first debate this year. barack obama decided he needed to be more aggressive. he was more...
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bill clinton signed it against his will. he vetoed twice. it required work. because we know people cannot succeed in america without working. it is obvious unless you are a trust fund baby. you are going to have to work to survive. as a result these great society programs, i'm sure the people who put these programs to get a thought they were doing people in favor but they are not. it is not the responsibility of the government to provide a. for you it damages you. it makes you dependent. he will struggle. it is just a different kind of struggle. i got criticized once in a debate about universal daycare in the finance committee in the senate and i gave an example of someone i have. hired i hired nine people off the welfare rolls. i talked about one of the who was working for me for about one year and was losing her subsidized day care because she could not find a slot for her two kids. she was going to have to quit because she could not make it work. she had a sister who was not working, living at home, and could have taken care of her children but she didn't
bill clinton signed it against his will. he vetoed twice. it required work. because we know people cannot succeed in america without working. it is obvious unless you are a trust fund baby. you are going to have to work to survive. as a result these great society programs, i'm sure the people who put these programs to get a thought they were doing people in favor but they are not. it is not the responsibility of the government to provide a. for you it damages you. it makes you dependent. he...
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then the debate between bill clinton and ross perot. then a debate in the missouri senate race. >> september 11 is a day that changed my life, it changed your life as well. i'm going to go through what transpired that day. it gets very intense. a lot of things happened very quickly. i will do my best not to ramble on and go too fast. i would ask you to sit back, clear your minds, and put yourself in that room, and you will get an idea what it was like to be at the top of the food chain, the national command authority as a nation of 300 million americans was attacked by 19 al-qaeda terrorists. >> more from retired lieutenant colonel robert darling "inside the president's bunker" this weekend on c-span 3. >> the reason i like it, is it because c-span just gives you the news straight up. it is, i would say, one of the most historical archives there are. i primarily watch "washington journal" house of representatives proceedings, c-span 2. >> jake young watches c-span on wow. c-span created by america's cable companies brought
then the debate between bill clinton and ross perot. then a debate in the missouri senate race. >> september 11 is a day that changed my life, it changed your life as well. i'm going to go through what transpired that day. it gets very intense. a lot of things happened very quickly. i will do my best not to ramble on and go too fast. i would ask you to sit back, clear your minds, and put yourself in that room, and you will get an idea what it was like to be at the top of the food chain,...
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some of you may remember then arkansas governor bill clinton's speech on behalf of michael dukakis in 1988 -- a droning speech that went on and on and on. there were calls for him to get off the stage and some thought it would lead to the ruination of his political career. i was on the floor in boston when barack obama gave his speech on behalf of john kerry and it was the most electrifying thing i had ever seen on a political convention from either party and i have attended conventions for both major national policy -- both major national parties. bill clinton looked like he had that his future great harm and a barack obama like catapulted himself and to the national consciousness and made himself almost an override presidential contender with that speech. you can gain or you can possibly appear to lose and almost gain something back. a speech can catapult shoe. it is your innate political skills that what you do with it that matters most. >> bridget is joining us from new york city. >> i support president obama. i vote for him. >> why is that? >> he is getting the job done. almost e
some of you may remember then arkansas governor bill clinton's speech on behalf of michael dukakis in 1988 -- a droning speech that went on and on and on. there were calls for him to get off the stage and some thought it would lead to the ruination of his political career. i was on the floor in boston when barack obama gave his speech on behalf of john kerry and it was the most electrifying thing i had ever seen on a political convention from either party and i have attended conventions for...
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that is followed by the 1992 debate between president george bush, bill clinton, and ross perot in st. louis. and then the year 2000 debate with al gore and former governor george w. bush in boston. join us tonight for past presidential debates on c-span. now the debate from the 1984 presidential campaign. president ronald reagan was running for reelection against former vice president walter mondale. this was the first of two debates between them that year. this takes place in louisville, ky. it aired live on october 7 on the three broadcast networks and attracted over 65 million viewers. this is about an hour and 40 minutes. [applause] >> good evening from the kentucky center for the arts in louisville, kentucky. i'm dorothy ridings, president of the league of women voters, the sponsor of tonight's first presidential debate between republican ronald reagan and democrat walter mondale. tonight's debate marks the third consecutive presidential election in which the league is presenting the candidates for the nation's highest office in face-to-face debate. our panelists are james wiegh
that is followed by the 1992 debate between president george bush, bill clinton, and ross perot in st. louis. and then the year 2000 debate with al gore and former governor george w. bush in boston. join us tonight for past presidential debates on c-span. now the debate from the 1984 presidential campaign. president ronald reagan was running for reelection against former vice president walter mondale. this was the first of two debates between them that year. this takes place in louisville, ky....
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bill clinton -- i have always felt he was a pretty good economic president. he bumped up the income tax, but bumped down the capital gains tax. i am not sure what the caller is talking about. he sounds very grouchy. nothing is perfect. i will defend most of that stuff. i cannot speak to governor scott. host: you talk about reagan. i want you to explain your recent column about the reagan in romney and where you say you believe that romney is the most candidates like reagan. -- the candidate most like reagan. guest: yes. i think he is the most fiscally conservative republican since ronald reagan. romney's position on a 20% supply-side tax cut across the board on targeting government of gdp to 20%, which could mean several trillion dollars lower spending. his growth estimate of 04% is exactly right. we should have had that this whole time. the idea of creating 300,000 new jobs a month was an excellent target. it might come to something like 12 million jobs in four years. unleashing our energy resources and going towards a more free- market choice when it comes
bill clinton -- i have always felt he was a pretty good economic president. he bumped up the income tax, but bumped down the capital gains tax. i am not sure what the caller is talking about. he sounds very grouchy. nothing is perfect. i will defend most of that stuff. i cannot speak to governor scott. host: you talk about reagan. i want you to explain your recent column about the reagan in romney and where you say you believe that romney is the most candidates like reagan. -- the candidate...
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bill clinton goes on. second, it will require insurance companies to sell coverage to small employer groups and to individuals who lose group coverage without regard to their health risk status. again, mr. speaker, we talk about that as if no one has ever considered this idea. not only has it been considered, it is the law of the land. it was the law of the land yesterday. it was the law of the land 10 years ago, it was the law of the land when president clinton signed it into law august 21, 1996. and finally bill clinton says, finally it will require insurers to renew policies they sell to groups and individuals. th is from the president's signing statement, 1996. in 1996, mr. speaker, we understood as a nation there are two kinds of insurance policies in this country. those that the federal government regulates and those that the state regulates. and why is that important? it's important because we solved the problems that americans asked congress to solve in 1996. regulating the most federally regulated
bill clinton goes on. second, it will require insurance companies to sell coverage to small employer groups and to individuals who lose group coverage without regard to their health risk status. again, mr. speaker, we talk about that as if no one has ever considered this idea. not only has it been considered, it is the law of the land. it was the law of the land yesterday. it was the law of the land 10 years ago, it was the law of the land when president clinton signed it into law august 21,...
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bill clinton? it is unbelievable. when you lose as a republican, they run in next time. in the democrats you lose, they shoot you. that's why people like al gore have to grow bear to go into a cave somewhere nobody knows where michael dukakis is right now because no one has ever asked. if you lose the democratic party, you are finished. you lose the republican party, come on back. jack kemp is available. let's put on a ticket in 1996. let's bring dold back. 20 years later they brought him back. who wanted that? it is a different culture. the democrats are a hot hand political party. if republicans had run john mccain the first time, it would have been interesting. if nixon had won in 1960 before the end betterment, it might-- before the imbitterment, it imight have been different. they wear them out and they get better by the time they get in there. you have to completely back to everything. on the mitt romney is driven by hard principle. whatever they wanted in a commencement speech, he would give them. he tells the neocons everything they want to hear. he will do the s
bill clinton? it is unbelievable. when you lose as a republican, they run in next time. in the democrats you lose, they shoot you. that's why people like al gore have to grow bear to go into a cave somewhere nobody knows where michael dukakis is right now because no one has ever asked. if you lose the democratic party, you are finished. you lose the republican party, come on back. jack kemp is available. let's put on a ticket in 1996. let's bring dold back. 20 years later they brought him back....
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bill clinton was known to use four-letter words about bond traders. altman, a deficit reduction -- ultimately, a deficit-reduction package was put into place. europe was mentioned. we have certainly seen the consequences of getting off track. many people say to me, rates are so low in the u.s., so markets clearly do not care about this, why should we care? first, in the last of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. we have all these problems, but most of the world has worse problems. we are the flight to safety, incredible as that seen if he study on numbers. secondly, markets are not quite as fast-acting and responsive as you might expect them to be. markets are not perfect. it is a little bit like -- you can go a long and feel you are just fine, then suddenly he blow up. greece had interest rates that were very close to germany's until four or five years ago. now you see what has happened to greece. we should not take any comfort or reassurance from the fact that we have historically very low long-term treasury rates. that could change in an instant.
bill clinton was known to use four-letter words about bond traders. altman, a deficit reduction -- ultimately, a deficit-reduction package was put into place. europe was mentioned. we have certainly seen the consequences of getting off track. many people say to me, rates are so low in the u.s., so markets clearly do not care about this, why should we care? first, in the last of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. we have all these problems, but most of the world has worse problems. we are the...
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i went out with bill clinton in kansas city to talk about how to reform social security. we had a great talk on that plane. we talked about how we would take the surplus at 3% and use it, instead of creating this, which was phony, and larry summers and bill clinton knew it was phony, let's create a real asset that will actually pay benefits. bill clinton, to his credit, wanted to create an asset, but have the government hold the assets. in other words, corporate bonds and even some safe stop. the private-sector would have to pay it would be a real asset as opposed to this, which is simply a promise from the government to pay. i want it to be individually held, he wanted it to be government held. we were working on something, and monica lewinsky's dress fell off. [laughter] here is the problem now. that 3% we were going to use to create this real asset does not exist anymore. some people have suggested we need to go to another system. who is going to finance it? who is one to give younger workers -- i am all for younger workers and a retirement account instead of social se
i went out with bill clinton in kansas city to talk about how to reform social security. we had a great talk on that plane. we talked about how we would take the surplus at 3% and use it, instead of creating this, which was phony, and larry summers and bill clinton knew it was phony, let's create a real asset that will actually pay benefits. bill clinton, to his credit, wanted to create an asset, but have the government hold the assets. in other words, corporate bonds and even some safe stop....
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bill clinton would have not had a balanced budget. the other thing i would like to mention the unpack on economics is that when we look at our long run budget deficits, it is a health care story. it is not public, it is the private sector health care. if we do not six, none of us can think of enough taxes to pay for it. -- if we do not fix it, none of us can think of economic taxes to pay for it. the speculation tax has the effect of increasing equality in making the financial sector more efficient by eliminating a lot of waste in the financial sector in eliminating a lot of the high-income people. the best way to direct -- get rid of the problem of the money going to the top 1% is to tax it off the top. if they do not get it, we do not have to worry about it. >> dean baker. financial transaction tax is a big goal of national nurses united. you got a mention in the budget. it is in play. chuck marr, you have scoped around -- spoke to run the little bit. what brings you here? >> i am mike lapham from the senate on budget policy priorit
bill clinton would have not had a balanced budget. the other thing i would like to mention the unpack on economics is that when we look at our long run budget deficits, it is a health care story. it is not public, it is the private sector health care. if we do not six, none of us can think of enough taxes to pay for it. -- if we do not fix it, none of us can think of economic taxes to pay for it. the speculation tax has the effect of increasing equality in making the financial sector more...
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when bill clinton was trying to impose hillary care, john kasay and i, now the governor of ohio, we were in the house budget committee and came up with the idea of now health savings account. for 20 years i've been arguing for public sector health care, from the bottom up, individual control, not government mandates. [applause] >> frankly, the other people in this race are just wrong on this issue. both have supported government mandates at the federal level, one for 20 years. the other put forth on a state level a template for obamacare and advocated for it and then told republican audiences through 20 debates he didn't do that when in fact he did. it's one thing to have bad policy in the state, it's another thing to advocate for it and a third thing to not tell the truth about what you did. and we need someone willing to tell the truth to the american public. we have a clear contrast on the biggest issue of the day between me and president obama. we don't. why would the republican party give that issue away, the most salient and important issue. i oppose the individual mandate and oppo
when bill clinton was trying to impose hillary care, john kasay and i, now the governor of ohio, we were in the house budget committee and came up with the idea of now health savings account. for 20 years i've been arguing for public sector health care, from the bottom up, individual control, not government mandates. [applause] >> frankly, the other people in this race are just wrong on this issue. both have supported government mandates at the federal level, one for 20 years. the other...
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bill clinton did what i'm talking about. he created 23 million new jobs, we went from deficit to surplus, and small businesses did very well. so in some way we have data on which plan is more likely to create jobs for americans, and i believe that the economy works best when middle class families are getting tax breaks so they have money in their pockets, and those of us who have done extraordinarily well because of this magnificent country that we live in, we can do a little more to make sure we're not blowing up the deficit. >> the president began this segment, so i think i get the last word. he gets the first word of the next segment, i get the last word of this segment. let me repeat what i said. i'm not in favor of a $5 trillion tax cut. that's not my plan. my plan is not to put in place any tax cut that will add to the deficit. that's part one. you may keep referring to it as a $5 trillion dax tax cut, but that's not reply plan. number two, let's look at history. my plan is not like anything that's been tried before. m
bill clinton did what i'm talking about. he created 23 million new jobs, we went from deficit to surplus, and small businesses did very well. so in some way we have data on which plan is more likely to create jobs for americans, and i believe that the economy works best when middle class families are getting tax breaks so they have money in their pockets, and those of us who have done extraordinarily well because of this magnificent country that we live in, we can do a little more to make sure...
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most issues but on the welfare reform under bill clinton. i didn't totally agree with what he was doing and i was the co chair here at the house. i thought that was pretty good, it was my second term and they named me co-chair. i think they did it because i was a welfare mother. they had no idea don't make made co-chair and expect me to be quiet. i would go to the floor and i would talk about it and i would use my experience. i would hear on the other side of the aisle and they would say yes, but she's different. i wasn't different. i was the actual example of what a welfare mom could be if given the chance. >> we're almost out of time but i wanted to ask, 95%, 96% of congress gets re-elected. do you think congressional seats should be more competitive? >> they are competitive? we run every two years. how more competitive could it be than to be on the block every two years and under the microscope of your constituents? in my district, i don't know about this one because we haven't gotten the numbers but in the first obama election we had 93.
most issues but on the welfare reform under bill clinton. i didn't totally agree with what he was doing and i was the co chair here at the house. i thought that was pretty good, it was my second term and they named me co-chair. i think they did it because i was a welfare mother. they had no idea don't make made co-chair and expect me to be quiet. i would go to the floor and i would talk about it and i would use my experience. i would hear on the other side of the aisle and they would say yes,...
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so when bill clinton passed the glass ceiling act, banks could bet your mortgage. so you have to be very careful about this. thank you. host: as we await the supreme court ruling on the federal health care law, we're watching out for monday this month. the release date that the court puts out this rulings. one story in "the washington post" says the delay health care action pending the supreme court ruling, bills are required to set plans in motion saying 17 states have put emmitt me menations on hold until hearing from the supreme court. an additional 13-plus have authorized their creation and many others including illinois have legislation pending in this area. also in the postpone, you hear from the president some think ohio will decide the election. but if you really want to know who will twin white house, you should ask the europeans. they are not eligible to vote but with goinching on in europe, things are looking grim for o'bama. >> i just want to say everybody keeps saying they want to keep taxing the rich, obviously they do pay their fair share a lot of th
so when bill clinton passed the glass ceiling act, banks could bet your mortgage. so you have to be very careful about this. thank you. host: as we await the supreme court ruling on the federal health care law, we're watching out for monday this month. the release date that the court puts out this rulings. one story in "the washington post" says the delay health care action pending the supreme court ruling, bills are required to set plans in motion saying 17 states have put emmitt me...
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bill clinton was a successful president. he got impeached, but years later people wish they had him back. >> didn't the whitewater movement lead to that? was the impeachment a mistake? >> on the issues related to monica lewinsky, i wish it had been different. our wish in hindsight, ken starr is a wonderful mayor, and he went where the case took him. >> you were part of the investigation. >> i feel strongly that we had parallel investigations, and if we have stopped to financial crimes aspect of whitewater, if we had taken the records, if we had done the things, and people do not remember these things and the reason mike huckabee became governor of arkansas, we uncovered something called casa grande, the governor of arkansas, we uncovered his illegal activity, and he was indicted and convicted byron -- by a jury, only the 10th time that a sitting governor went to prison. your mike huckabee ascended to become governor of arkansas. that is how he became governor. he was the deputy attorney general. the guys who want to blow of
bill clinton was a successful president. he got impeached, but years later people wish they had him back. >> didn't the whitewater movement lead to that? was the impeachment a mistake? >> on the issues related to monica lewinsky, i wish it had been different. our wish in hindsight, ken starr is a wonderful mayor, and he went where the case took him. >> you were part of the investigation. >> i feel strongly that we had parallel investigations, and if we have stopped to...